As a woman who has always worked hard to (successfully) prevent pregnancy, don't even THINK this is a great form of birth control. You'd be better off with a roll of the dice. Use SOME decent form of birth control, not a fertility calendar to prevent pregnancy.

the last giveaway I made portable just fine with Cameyo.

What next! *rolleyes*

This is just soooo wrong

Good day,

I like the idea of this software. It allows a REMINDER to be bought into your lives regards a woman's cycle.

It is very useful for us since we are planning to start our family in a year or so and would not like an unexpected surprise.

Of course we use "protection" but my wife has elected to use contraceptive creams for a while due to the side effects of continued use of the pill.

Using a cream is only 70% effective and it is recommended to use a condom in conjunction with the cream for more reliable protection. While my wife experiences no discomfort with using condoms, I do.

While some of you say it is unreliable, the reliability issues crop up in all forms of birth control testing and even in pregnancy testing... NOTHING is totally reliable.

Any assistance in family planning should be taken with a grain of salt and should be cautiously applied and judiciously followed. Some plan is better than No plan.

This program's usefulness is that it lends an organized hand in tracking and documenting my wife's cycle. It keeps us alert as it serves to remind us, on a daily basis, to remain vigilant in preventing passionate "accidents".

Thank you GATD and SOFTORBIT for this product.

In a fairness to the product males should not vote on this. The voting should come from the female members of this group.

Promoting this as a reliable form of birth control, or even as the "safest" form, as the website says, is dangerously misleading. There are so many variables involved that for most women in most situations, "natural birth control" simply isn't reliable. There is a "money back" guarantee mentioned on the website; the creators can probably look forward to "I used this as contraception, and now I'm pregnant!" claims.

And using it to plan the gender of a child, really? I think the word for that is "quackery".

GotD, I suppose you wanted to do something for "the ladies" today. For me at least, this is quite an impressive failure, no matter how teeth-rottingly pink the thing is.

For those who want an ovulation calendar, it is one of many free options within the free and excellent PTBsync program. (I am a happy user, but have no connection with the developer.)

The program contains a powerful organizer, desktop calendar, desktop notes, synchronizes the Windows clock with an atomic clock, and extends the taskbar clock. The design is ingenious and amazingly customizable and inclusive (e.g. holidays and calendar systems for everywhere). See the illustrated overview at its home page link.

Come to think of it, this whole idea is insulting to women. Bad choice any day and especially this day!

If a woman wants to know for sure exactly when she is ovulating all she needs to do is take a temp before she gets out of bed every day, when it changes you are ovulating....you don't need software to do it. Looks to me like someone just wanting to make a fast buck. As to the comments about knowing when PMS might strike by the men here, PAY ATTENTION, it comes around on the average of every 4 weeks. Using software to know when to be nice to your mate, is crazy, and very immature. If you love her you pay attention all the time, not just when she might blow up at you due to PMS!

Tracking your temperature changes with a thermometer and noting this on a sheet every day for a few months helps a woman tell when she is most likely ovulating. Every woman ovulates at different times, the average is around the 14th day after the first day of her period. Some women a little sooner, some a little later, hence the temperature measurement. The temperature change is about .5 to .7 ( or from 36.5 usual average to around 37.2 for 1 or 2 days.). The higher temperature helps her egg survive until it is implanted. A simple digital thermometer and a few sheets of paper is all it takes. There are a few other physical signs that accompany ovulation that ladies will notice at the same time. Some people prefer using software to remind them to do this. For myself, I prefer to download a spreadsheet template (from Microsoft or elsewhere) and do it the less expensive way, but this program is free today and made specially for this purpose. I found it to be perfect, colorful, easy to understand, easy install and registration. Ladies, today if you are trying to get pregnant, this program will help you time your ovulation better. Of course, there is no guarantee of pregnancy, just a little more informed help to raise the chances. If you are not trying to have a child, well, - boys, use a condom. As for the sex of a child? Well, I guess half of you will say it worked!

The tremendously ugly default look of the programme and the humiliating and misleading web page only show, what the developer thinks about women. Don't let this thing mess with your ovulation.

Best wishes!

#WomensDay :-)

Didn't download / didn't vote....

Could you create a more primitive sounding title for the software? And a horoscope? Seriously? For $30?

From its' Websites 'About' page; “Be our freind! (sic) Do not miss our news, updates and discounts. “ FB page hasn't been touched since May '13.

Three banners on same page go nowhere. Including the one from Intel.

I wouldn't touch this if I ran a fertility clinic.

Ovulation timing aka natural family planning isn't a very effective form of BC because women's cycles can vary a bit due to stress, change in work schedule, diet, etc. Moreover, studies have shown that women become more attractive, also more -- shall we say -- interested, around ovulation time.

At first I thought this might be geared toward certain religious groups that frown on any sort of artificial BC, some of which want as many children as possible, a "quiverfull." But the horoscope function would be inappropriate then, because these same religious groups regard astrology and other forms of popular superstition as idolatry, forbidden.

That said, I think this could be very useful as a PMS tracker, as several other users have noted. We women can be very patient and loving, most of the time. But at that time, all bets are off. The contrast can be jarring, even to oneself. So this program could come in very handy for that.

Bad idea to encourage couple to use this to prevent unwanted pregnancy. While natural birth control can be very effective, a calendar alone is a sure way to NOT avoid unwanted pregnancy!

As a single male, this is of no use to me.

Not useful for me being a bachelor but decided to tinker with it just 'cause I'm bored. LOL

They have been giving this away around the same time every year:

March 8, 2012:
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-woman-calendar/#more-30001

and then on March 11, 2013:
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-woman-calendar-5-0/#more-38130

Anyways, I noticed it has an auto update check with no way to disable it from within the program itself. There is however a setting in the Windows Registry for those who are aren't afraid of modifying the registry:
Change "disableUpdates" from "0" to "1" at this key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\softorbits\Advanced Woman Calendar
At least it worked on my old XP SP3...
Good luck!

Good choice of giveaway for International Women’s Day.....

...which is one of the most useless and hypocrit day of the year....

HALF the population of the world needs a "special day" ?
Or is it more the whining UNfeminine man-hating western half of the world demanding more attention for doing nothing and being rewarded out of public funds for it ?

Much better than Russian Roulette as nobody gets killed, in contrary ...

If you want to get pregnant more quickly or get pregnant a little bit later (statistically) ovulation methods are helpful but not much for contraception as sperma is active for several days and next cycle can be easily disadjusted e.g. by a journey.

If it truely could influence babies' gender it should be forbidden! Think of several countries' problems with too much men.

Against our planet's overpopulation it won't be of any help. The nations who are really hittend by overpopulation can't afford it.

This sort of program should be portable!

citation from previous GAOTD events:

@Phil
Purely from a man’s perspective, the ability to tracks premenstrual syndrome could also make his life a whole lot easier by allowing him the chance to know when chocolates, flowers and doing more housework are required to maintain his usual peaceful existence.

@tc1uscg
From the thumbs down, I can see not many women come here and browse. And for some of you men, you might want this just to keep up with your wife’s, daughters or even your female boss’s cycle just so you know when it’s gonna be a bad week. Hey, laugh or call it sexist but I’ve seen a pattern and know when I need to spend more time in the garage. ;-)

I'm cerious that really a producer read all previous women comments and do the improvements. I'm waiting for female comments.

Anyway @---)----- for all female
guests here today.

Happy Women's Day!

"...with a great possibility to prevent unwanted pregnancy..."

OMG! You shouldn't use this application for that reason!

A correction :

The horoscope works also in russian language.

It was given away here a few years ago. It does work if the person it's been programmed for has a regular cycle; otherwise it's not very accurate.

Got this from one of the other sites two days ago. Useful way of knowing when to be especially careful around my wife (i.e. PMT) :)

Cannot use, thank

I don't have a real use of this software, but I liked to write a short report. I'm sure we have ladies here, too.

Installed and registered without problems on a Win 8.1 Pro 64 bit system.

A company with a phone and a fax number. That's better than nothing.

The typical "woman" stylish interface appears upon startup, but you can change the skin, from hearts to business, where I do not see a real use for the business skin. At least a decent one.

Of course you can protect this software by a key, to keep private things private. You can backup and restore your data, and can add personal remarks in this calender.

Surely a useful software for the planning woman. But I think that the syncronization of this calender with its infos to a portable (android or iphone) devise is a crucial missing point. What if you travel? Or have a nice holiday away from the computer at home?

And a second big minus : the horoscope works only in English language. If the producer offers different languages in the configuration, he should have also translated the horoscope text in the main languages.

Nicely made, understandable and easy to use. With a calender synchronisation an excellent software.

Uninstalled via reboot. We are both to old...

Menopause countdown will be better 8)

Bad!!!!

"opportunity for natural birth control"

that is not true! Not reliable.

Good choice of giveaway for International Women's Day.